IB Gulf of Alaska/ Southeast Bering Sea 



Edward T. Baker 



Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory/ NOA A 

 Seattle, Washington 



Circulation in the northeast Gulf of Alaska is dominated by the eastern 

 and northern limbs of the North Pacific subarctic gyre. The broad and 

 sluggish eastern limb narrows, deepens, and accelerates near the head of 

 the gulf, turning westward to flow south of Kodiak Island and the Alaska 

 Peninsula as the Alaskan Stream. 



In the southeastern Bering Sea, circulation patterns and hydrographic 

 domains are bathymetrically controlled. A hydrographic front 

 approximately coincident with the 50-m isobath separates well-mixed and 

 turbid inshore water from stratified, less turbid offshore water. 



